The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library located in New York City at the corner of 77th Street and Central Park West in Manhattan. Built in 1804, it’s the oldest museum in New York City.  The New-York Historical Society presents exhibitions, public programs, and research that explore the rich history of New York and the nation. The Patricia D. Klingenstein Library has more than three million books, newspapers, maps, photographs and more from the nation’s founding through slavery and Reconstruction and beyond. The Gilder Lehrman Collection is also stored in the New-York Historical Society, where the visitors can see signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment and the Constitution.
The New-York Historical Society
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